Groups with Photos

Create a Single Group I Create a Set of Groups I Add a Group Module

For instructions without photos, please visit this page.

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Working with groups

• Click Users and Groups on the Control Panel

• Click Groups

• This brings you to the groups page for the course
  • Any groups that have already been created will be displayed here

• There are two ways to create groups:
  • Create Single Group: only one group will be created
  • Create Group Set: a specified number of duplicate, numbered groups will be created
  • See below for how to use each

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Create a Single Group

• Click Create

• Either:
  • Click Self-Enroll (if you want students to enroll themselves in the group) OR
  • Click Manual Enroll (if you want to assign students to the group)

• Fill in name and other necessary information

• Set availability

• Select Tools and personalization settings for the group

• If you chose Self-Enroll,
  • Fill in name and other necessary information for Sign-up Options section
    • Maximum Number of Members
    • Show Members
    • Allow students to sign-up from the groups listing page
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• If you chose Manual Enroll
  • Click Add Users, under Membership
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  • Either:
    • Select Users from the list OR
    • Search for Users using the search bar
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  • Click Submit
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Create a Set of Groups
This creates a specified number of duplicate, numbered groups.

• Click Create

• Either:
  • Click Self-Enroll if you want students to enroll themselves in a group OR
  • Click Manual Enroll to assign students to each group OR
  • Click Random Enroll to randomly distribute the students into groups

• Fill out the group name, description, and availability options.
  • The name of each individual group will be the name you chose here plus a number (name1, name2, name3, etc.)

• Choose Tools and personalization settings for the groups

• Set availability

• If you chose self enroll
  • Fill in name and other necessary information for Sign-up Options section
    • Maximum Number of Members
    • Show Members
    • Allow students to sign-up from the groups listing page

• Click Submit

• If you chose Manual Enroll,
  • Specify how many groups you want to create
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  • Click Submit
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  • Choose your filter options
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  • To assign members
    • Click Add Users in Group
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    • Either:
      • Select Users from the list OR
      • Search for Users using the search bar
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    • Click Submit
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  • Click Submit
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• If you chose Random Enroll
  • Decide how members are to be distributed to the groups and how to deal with extra students
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  • Click Submit
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Add Group Module

• Go to Group page
• Click Add Course Module OR Add Group Module
  • Group Modules: Group Assignments, Group Properties, and Group Tools
  • Course Modules are more numerous, and each has a description next to it.

• Click Add under any Tools you wish to add

• Click OK

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Group Tools
Collaboration: not currently supported
File Exchange: students can files that are accessible to the entire Group
Group Blog: Each member is able to create blog entries, that are again available to the entire Group
Group Discussion Board: A discussion board specifically for the members of the Group
Group Journal: Each member is able to create journal entries, that are again available to the entire Group
Group Tasks: Assign tasks to the Group
Group Wiki: Each member is able to create wiki pages, that are again available to the entire Group
Send Email: Send an email to every member of the Group